Sporting-Benfica battle? Rui Borges: Mourinho is as devoted as me | OneFootball

Rui Borges spoke this Friday, May 15, ahead of the match on the final round of the Liga Portugal Betclic. The Lions depend only on themselves to secure 2nd place, and the coach recalled that José Mourinho should believe the same.

"The boss must be as devoted as I am, in the week of Our Lady of Fátima... I want to finish in 2nd place and I, along with the team, have to be good enough to overcome a side that is having a great season. It will be a competitive, intense match that will demand our very best," he began by saying.

Rui Borges was also asked whether the words of the Benfica coach undermine the merit of the Sporting team: "They don’t undermine anything. The only thing that hurts is the fact that we weren’t able to become champions. And next season we want to be better. We really want to win the Cup, which is still our trophy, and we really want to keep it. I’m more concerned with what we were and weren’t able to do at certain moments," he said.

The match between Sporting and Gil Vicente is scheduled for next Saturday, May 16. The clash, corresponding to the final round of the National Championship, against the side led by César Peixoto, will be played at the Estádio José Alvalade at 8:30 p.m.

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